Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea costellata |
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bayhops, beach morning glory, goat's foot |
crest-rib morning glory |
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Habit | Annuals. | |
Stems | usually trailing, or twining only near tips, rarely erect. |
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Leaf | blades palmatisect, lobes 5–9, lance-linear, linear, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 7–28 × 0.5–3(–8) mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
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Peduncles | usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hispidulous. |
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Flowers | sepals lance-oblong to lanceolate, outers 3–5 × 1–2 mm, inners 4–6 × 2–3 mm, herbaceous, apex acute, abaxial surface usually ± carinate and glabrous, sometimes hispidulous on midrib; corolla pale lavender to pink, funnelform, 10–12 mm. |
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Ipomoea pes-caprae |
Ipomoea costellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Nov. | |
Habitat | Chaparral, oak woodlands, ponderosa pine zone, rocky sites. | |
Elevation | 100–2200 m. (300–7200 ft.) | |
Distribution |
tropical regions; original distribution unknown; now world-wide in subtropical and tropical climates
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico [Introduced in South America]
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies pes-caprae in known from coastal and island shores around and in the Indian Ocean. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 14. | FNA vol. 14. |
Parent taxa | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea | Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea |
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Synonyms | Convolvulus pes-caprae | I. costellata var. edwardsensis |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) R. Brown: Observ. Congo, 58. (1818) | Torrey in W. H. Emory: Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 149. (1859) |
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